About Cops Minds
Although Cops Minds is about supporting and enriching the lives of police officers, police staff & retired police officers to support to help reduce the impact of mental health arising from and associated with their policing duty.
COPS Minds was inspired by the insights of a personal friend who is serving a police officer who is suffering from mental health which is associated with the job, there is a great level of support out there but it was felt more could be done to support officers.
Trevor Sherwood Chair of Cops Minds “We have launched the charity after we identified that Police Officers were generally only allowed access to 6 support sessions covered for by the job.
“More shockingly we discovered that officers who are off work with mental health issues which were associated with the job who had been off for so long were worried as they face half pay and then face the risk of being medically discharged if the limited sessions provided do not work.
“We want to be able to police officers access more support sessions to truly support good mental health and wellbeing to ensure our officers who have dedicated their lives supporting others can support themselves and return back to work
“A Police Officer who is currently suffering from mental health associated with the job inspired the creation of Cops Minds, through listening to and understanding, I quickly learned that more support was needed for police officers
www.copsminds.co.uk
info@copsminds.co.uk
Cops Minds Registered charity number 1193866